WATCHERS by Hattie Noyes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 6, 1874

WATCHERS

By Hattie Noyes

“More than they that watch for the morning.” Ps. 130:6.

As watchers that wait for the morning, And watch for the coming light, Anxiously keeping their vigil Through the long dark hours of night,

So we’ve longed for our Saviour’s coming, Through the weary night of years, And watched for the dawn of the morning, Till our eyes are dim with tears.

Still the clouds hang dark o’er the mountains, Thick clouds of error and sin, And closed are the gates of the city, Lest Jesus should enter in.

So long have the people been fettered By the sin-chains not yet riven, They care not for love that would free them, For the gift that God has given.

They turn a deaf ear to our warnings, Our message they will not hear; Oh! watcher on Zion’s hilltops, Say, is not the morning near?

And if still we must wait for its dawning, This promise our hearts shall keep— That they who in tears have been sowing, With joy shall the harvest reap. —Hattie Noyes, Canton, China.